In 1888, a church and school building was erected in a central location at newly-divided Brown’s Prairie, with the Reverend David Buchmueller as pastor and teacher. By 1911, a new wooden six-room school building was used each Sunday, with one… read more
A small rural schoolhouse was built in 1939 by the WPA for students in the rural community of Brown’s Prairie, replacing a 1911 wooden one-room schoolhouse. Brown’s Prairie School as described on a Texas Historical Marker located on the site of… read more
The small frontier town of Washington, Texas entered history on March 2, 1836 when representatives of the largest settlements in Texas met inside an unfinished building near the banks of the Brazos River to declare independence from Mexico. When independence… read more